LibreOffice

And perfectly working software that covers whatever else MS365 offers, e.g. Thunderbird

I’d love for more people to change to Linux, but these are all (also) Windows software.

There is something deeply wrong with those people.

Part thoughtlessness - it never ceases to amaze me how unconsciously most people seem to walk through life - and part entitlement.

But entitlement is always part of it as OP shows.

Where does all this entitlement come from? What’s the root cause? I have some jumbled thoughts:

• misunderstood self-confidence
• effectively class society still exists but everybody wants to be upperclass, so every motion of humbleness endangers their idea of themselves

Do you have some jumbled thoughts too?

Yet I’m sure they exist.

From some random article:

Naming a daughter after a mother isn’t a modern phenomenon; in some cultures, the tradition of matrilineal naming goes back centuries. In Ireland, and several other European countries, it was commonplace to name the first daughter after the maternal grandmother, the second daughter after the paternal grandmother, and the third daughter after the mother.

The practice is also prevalent in several Spanish-speaking countries, where it’s common to carry on both parents’ last names as well.

And then there’s Iceland.

c/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT

FYI, Poland had a pretty far-right undemocratic government until relatively recently (a few years…). Keyword PiS. For a moment it looked like they might do a full Hungary. I’m glad they got back from that!

Before any commenter rushes to condemn the Chaos That Is Linux, please check out OP’s posting history to get a clearer picture of their credibility.

(and like they themselves stated, this is a rant and not a PSA)

That’s kindof the opposite of what the previous commenter said. Have you tried explicitely setting the env var to a value different than what’s in gsettings?

What env var are we talking about btw?

And what freedesktop spec? AFAIK they do not deal much in env vars apart from XDG_*

with Russia presenting conditions that a Ukrainian source said went beyond its previous demands.

Ah yes the good old mafia style “You didn’t like our first offer, well now it’s twice as much!”

Russia expressed satisfaction with the talks

Because of cause they did, smugly.

Common sense left this regime years ago.

White Elephant

… or a subtle way to tell him to go fuck himself?

I think it’s a coincidence and not etymologically related - scandinavian languages use the verb “talar” or variations thereof for “pay” or “tell” and I think it’s more related to the German word “zahlen”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahl#Etymologie

The left-hand side mix of utilitarian architectures is interesting.

We had a smaller version of this in our childhood; the contents were somehow halfway between chocolate and chewing gum.

7 years? You’re optimistic. I think that already happened years ago.

No surprises there; state TV has been increasingly under the Kremlin’s thumb ever since Putin took office; it is safe to call them propaganda outlets now.

Glad to hear from Meduza’s English language section again! Their podcast had a lull but also has new episodes now; recommended.

Isn’t it important if the surface is reflective or not, regardless of colour?

And something (vague and uninformed) tells me that emitting bright pictures isn’t the same as “being brightly colored”. Also that LCD/e-ink displays are significantly different here.

Good question, I will remember to come back here and see who has the best answer (none satisfy me 100% so far).

I can confirm. But a couple years back, there were alternatives to that (none of which privacy-friendly) - if you can find the tiny, easy to overlook link “try something else”.

It doesn’t even have to be a long time. Just changing IPs in a way they find suspicious is enough.

Same for Google btw and probably all large US American platforms.

edit: you never logged in in 10+ years? Unless you know there’s sensitive stuff in there, leave it. You probably won’t even be able to log in without going through major hoops.

I decided to actively delete my account a couple of years back. I did NOT want to scan my ID, as they demanded, but there were always other options. None of which appealed to me since they were clearly designed to get one last bit of valuable info for my shadow profile, but I went with the option to have 3 friends vouch for me.

After that I was told that it would take 30 days or so and trying to log in during that time would be interpreted as canceling my deletion. I never did.

The Arch Wiki used to have some elaborate tricks on Firefox profile syncing, and some software to support it, maybe you should check that out (but the actual software FF uses is or used to be FOSS as well).

They expected her to humbly step aside when her uber came, when she saw the regal couple-to-be!

Yeah I hate that shit too. My guess is it’s a variation of “2 people walking side by side on a sidewalk automaticallly have priority over a single” - wtf, no, walk in line if there’s people coming.

I love the name. Sounds like something edible. Maybe it just reminds me of GNUtella. A Taler, btw, is an old currency (mostly present in fairytales these days) and etymologically related to dollar.